Jeremy L Warner1, Suzanne E Maddux2, Kevin S Hughes3, John C Krauss4, Peter Paul Yu5, Lawrence N Shulman6, Deborah K Mayer7, Mike Hogarth8, Mark Shafarman9, Allison Stover Fiscalini10, Laura Esserman11, Liora Alschuler12, George Augustine Koromia12, Zabrina Gonzaga12, Edward P Ambinder13. 1. Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA jeremy.warner@vanderbilt.edu. 2. Quality and Guidelines Division, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, VA, USA. 3. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 4. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 5. Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA. 6. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. 7. UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. 8. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA. 9. Shafarman Consulting, Oakland, CA, USA. 10. Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. 11. Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. 12. Lantana Consulting Group, East Thetford, VT, USA. 13. Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Develop and evaluate a foundational oncology-specific standard for the communication and coordination of care throughout the cancer journey, with early-stage breast cancer as the use case. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Owing to broad uptake of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) by health information exchanges and large provider organizations, we developed an implementation guide in congruence with C-CDA. The resultant product was balloted through the HL7 process and subsequently implemented by two groups: the Health Story Project (Health Story) and the Athena Breast Health Network (Athena). RESULTS: The HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA, Release 2: Clinical Oncology Treatment Plan and Summary, DSTU Release 1 (eCOTPS) was successfully balloted and published as a Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU) in October 2013. Health Story successfully implemented the eCOTPS the 2014 meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in a clinical vignette. During the evaluation and implementation of eCOPS, Athena identified two practical concerns: (1) the need for additional CDA templates specific to their use case; (2) the many-to-many mapping of Athena-defined data elements to eCOTPS. DISCUSSION: Early implementation of eCOTPS has demonstrated successful vendor-agnostic transmission of oncology-specific data. The modularity enabled by the C-CDA framework ensures the relatively straightforward expansion of the eCOTPS to include other cancer subtypes. Lessons learned during the process will strengthen future versions of the standard. CONCLUSION: eCOTPS is the first oncology-specific CDA standard to achieve HL7 DSTU status. Oncology standards will improve care throughout the cancer journey by allowing the efficient transmission of reliable, meaningful, and current clinical data between the many involved stakeholders.
OBJECTIVE: Develop and evaluate a foundational oncology-specific standard for the communication and coordination of care throughout the cancer journey, with early-stage breast cancer as the use case. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Owing to broad uptake of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) by health information exchanges and large provider organizations, we developed an implementation guide in congruence with C-CDA. The resultant product was balloted through the HL7 process and subsequently implemented by two groups: the Health Story Project (Health Story) and the Athena Breast Health Network (Athena). RESULTS: The HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA, Release 2: Clinical Oncology Treatment Plan and Summary, DSTU Release 1 (eCOTPS) was successfully balloted and published as a Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU) in October 2013. Health Story successfully implemented the eCOTPS the 2014 meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in a clinical vignette. During the evaluation and implementation of eCOPS, Athena identified two practical concerns: (1) the need for additional CDA templates specific to their use case; (2) the many-to-many mapping of Athena-defined data elements to eCOTPS. DISCUSSION: Early implementation of eCOTPS has demonstrated successful vendor-agnostic transmission of oncology-specific data. The modularity enabled by the C-CDA framework ensures the relatively straightforward expansion of the eCOTPS to include other cancer subtypes. Lessons learned during the process will strengthen future versions of the standard. CONCLUSION: eCOTPS is the first oncology-specific CDA standard to achieve HL7 DSTU status. Oncology standards will improve care throughout the cancer journey by allowing the efficient transmission of reliable, meaningful, and current clinical data between the many involved stakeholders.
Keywords:
Breast Neoplasms; Continuity of Patient Care; Electronic Health Records; Health Information Management; Information Science; Medical Oncology
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